FEDERAL POLITICS
SPEECHES AT BIGHT-HOUR DAY BANQUET. ■ ■ , Sydney, October C. 1 At the Eight-Hour Day banquet', tho speeches of Labour lenders, including Mr. Ryan, Premier of Queensland; mainly consisted of attacks on the Nationalist Government for restricting 'the freedom of tiie peoplo and permitting rampant profiteering. . Senator Gardiner announced definitely 'that the Federal elections will be held on .December IS. Mr. Storey, the Now South Wales Labour leader, stated that the' Stato Nationalists were' accumulating: a fund of a quarter of a million, to fight tho Labour Party. Notable among the speakers wero Dean Talbot (Anglican) and leather O'Reilly (Roman Catholic), both of whom strongly advocated the need for better social conditions and a more equitable share of the fruits of labour for tho workman.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. (The cnblo news in tliifl issue accredited to the London "Timoe" has appeared in that journal, but only where expresily stated is bucli news the editorial opiniiin of tlio "Times.")
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 10, 7 October 1919, Page 7
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157FEDERAL POLITICS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 10, 7 October 1919, Page 7
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